03206cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000150007804000110009304100170010405000110012110000320013224500780016426400510024230000470029333600260034033700260036633800360039250000310042850801910045952018600065053400690251065300420257965300370262165300400265865300560269885600590275485600430281377293UtSlPG20260610134806.0mcr n260607r20251860utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  arc01001223  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aF590.31 aGreeley, Horace,d1811-187213aAn overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-11-22  aRichard Tonsing, Peter Becker, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"An overland journey, from New York to San Francisco in the summer of 1859" by Horace Greeley is a travel narrative written in the mid-19th century. Drawn from newspaper letters, it traces an overland crossing of the United States, mixing vivid reportage on landscapes, frontier towns, mail and freight routes, mining camps, and the politics of slavery with the author’s practical notes on travel conditions.

The opening of the book follows the author from New York by rail and steamboat to Missouri and across the river into Kansas, amid storms, swollen creeks, and balky “sleeping-cars.” He sketches the hard spring of scarcity in the Midwest, the sparse settlements of northern Missouri, and the dangerous, muddy Missouri River before reaching Atchison, where freighting trains and Pike’s Peak parties crowd the prairie. Heading toward Osawatomie through quaggy trails and wagon corrals, he depicts the Santa Fe and California routes, then pauses to honor Osawatomie’s role in the free-state struggle and John Brown’s defense. Subsequent letters cover a flood-hampered political convention, sharp critiques of demagogues and anti-Black measures, and brisk portraits of Prairie City, the skirmish at Black Jack, Lawrence (with Mount Oread and the Eldridge House), and a rare steamboat ascent of the Kaw. He surveys Leavenworth’s army post and the vast Russell, Majors & Waddell freighting empire, then rides west through the Potawatomi Reserve to Topeka—recalling federal suppression of free-state institutions—on to the Big Blue and Manhattan. The initial “summing up” praises Kansas’s rich soil, limestone, and water, notes lumber scarcity and transport costs, highlights cheap, prolific corn, rebukes shiftless settlers, and ends with practical advice on building a farm quickly. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York: C.M. Saxton, Barker & Co., 1860  aWest (U.S.) -- Description and travel  aOverland journeys to the Pacific  aWest (U.S.) -- History -- 1848-1860  aGreeley, Horace, 1811-1872 -- Travel -- West (U.S.)4 uhttps://archive.org/details/overlandjourneyf00greeuoft40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77293